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Pouncing onto the British music scene like the hyperactive spawn of the late-1970s hard-rock scene, the Darkness unveiled their 2003 debut, PERMISSION TO LAND, to great success in the UK. Led by unitard-wearing, falsetto-brandishing vocalist/guitarist Justin Hawkins, the group revels in the kind of pop metal once made famous by Def Leppard and Whitesnake, boasting big guitar riffs and driving rock rhythms. The band's not-so-secret weapon is Hawkins himself--an irrepressible, high-kicking frontman who gleefully unleashes lyrics such as "a nimbus of blue light surrounds a crimson paw" in a voice that ranges from a growl to a wail rivaling Queen's Freddie Mercury or Judas Priest's Rob Halford.
Although the Darkness may come across as tongue-in-cheek metal revivalists, they're entirely sincere on soaring power ballads such as "Love Is Only a Feeling" and "Holding My Own." And when Hawkins screams out "guitar!" before the guitar solo in "I Believe in a Thing Called Love," there's no mistaking the intention of these energetic British lads--they've come to rock.
2003 album for up-and-coming British rock act. There's a huge buzz about this & it could become the biggest UK rock album of the year. Includes the singles 'Growing On Me', 'Get Your Hands Off My Woman' & 'I Believe In A Thing Called Love'. 10 tracks. Copy Controlled. Must Destoy.
Dan Hawkins (guitar); Frankie Poullain (bass); Ed Graham (drums).
Standard edition
Recorded at Chapel Studios, Lincolnshire, England and Paul Smith Music Studios, London, England.
The Darkness: Justin Hawkins (vocals, guitar, piano, synthesizer);
Rolling Stone (12/25/03, p.105) - Included in Rolling Stone's "50 Best Albums of 2003"
Rolling Stone (10/2/03, p.118) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...PERMISSION TO LAND is the first retro-metal album that's worth more than a momentary chuckle. Eighties hard rock is alive and well in the hands of the Darkness."
Q (01/01/04, p.82) - Ranked #9 in Q's "The 50 Best Albums of 2003" - "PERMISSION TO LAND is a great rock album."
Uncut (9/03, p.97) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Staggeringly skillful, and a strangely touching expression of unbridled joy..."
CMJ (9/29/03, p.5) - "...[The Darkness] is here to remind everyone that rock music doesn't need to be so [damn] serious..."
Mojo (Publisher) (8/03, p.98) - 4 out of 5 stars - "...To execute a rock 'n' roll this audaciously camp and ludicrously overblown take balls of exactly the dimensions they boast about in interviews..." Permission To Land Review
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